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  • 2001-10-12 (xsd:date)
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  • Was Sesame Street's Bert Displayed with Osama bin Laden on Pro-Taliban Posters? (en)
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  • Eh? Is that really Bert, the irascible muppet partner of Ernie on TV's Sesame Street, peering over the left shoulder of Osama bin Laden on posters displayed by the terrorist's supporters? How did he get there? The process that turned Bert into a henchman of evil was as follows: 1) Dino Ignacio, a San Francisco artist, started Bert is Evil!, a humor site on which, as a running joke, he attempted to prove the muppet Bert was evil by inserting him, Zelig-like, into photographs with notorious people and infamous historical scenes. 2) Although Ignacio stopped updating his site a few years before the 9/11 attacks, several mirror sites kept the gag going, and Bert is Evil! enthusiasts continued to create and post new pictures, including an image of Bert posing with Osama bin Laden: 3) The picture of muppet Bert with Osama bin Laden was inadvertently picked up by someone in Bangladesh scouring the web looking for photographs of Osama bin Laden to use in a collage-like poster: 4) The Osama bin Laden poster — with the muppet — was displayed at rallies by pro-bin Laden protesters and appeared in photographs carried by news agencies such as Reuters and Associated Press. (en)
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